G'day everyone,
Noticed things a bit quite here on the forum, and a pretty horrible day outside so I'll add a bit more.
It was February 1999,
GIO was the insurance company, it got bought out and changed hands not long after to AMP or something like that. At the time, I suppose it was roughly about the Market value, even though it was at the very lowest end. I'd had enough and just wanted to get on with it.
We sorted out the last bit of paperwork, and then after a tidy up of the workshop, we started the fix up.
Here is March 8th 1999, and little half/halfpint keeping a close eye on progress.
This was where the subbies were out. We found lots of the mud and sand from the wet Hay trip.
When I pulled it all down to the component level, it looked worse than it actually was.
All the bits and pieces I'd done over the years showed they were the right ones. Wheel bearings had no water at all get passed the seals, swing arm pins and needle rollers were the same.
The Body was put outside to give me a bit more room to move around in the shed.
The garbage bag came off the 1275 finally, and a complete car, minus the gearbox, was sprawled out all over the shed again. I wasn't sure what I was going to do about the gearbox, the murky water got into everything, and in hindsight I should have stripped/ split the engine and box straight away and cleaned it out, but I didn't, and when I got back to it a few weeks later, just couldnt trust it enough to go back in.
Now, we all know how it goes, cleaning bits takes a long time, and a day here and a day there, bit by individual bit was stripped, washed, bead blasted and repainted.
When we originally painted the Moke, we used 2 pack, and a good wash of the body and panels was all that was needed to restore it back to the same as before it went into the dam. Same with all the powder coated bits and pieces.
A different story to the all the other components where we used an enamel spray can. I think the dam was fairly acidic with cows, sheep and horses on the property, and everything washing into it. It left all these parts milky looking.
Halfpint.
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